---
type: "Bill"
title: "Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules"
description: "Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules"
jurisdiction: "us/states/wv"
legislature: "West Virginia Legislature"
session: "2024"
identifier: "SB 17"
citation: "West Virginia SB 17 (2024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Legislature--Rule Making"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Woodrum"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 56
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-01-10"
last_action: "2024-04-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b618ad5a-33f7-49ef-861f-52609f46d690"
source_url: "https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/Bills_history.cfm?input=17&year=2024&sessiontype=RS&btype=bill"
source_hash: "c6fa626ccfca21042433b7d38a3e7094fa3e6fbb65e2b1eda43fe9414318cc66"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-wv"]
---

# West Virginia SB 17 (2024) — Authorizing Department of Health to promulgate legislative rules

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb17%20sub1.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=17)
2. **Enrolled Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb17%20sub1%20enr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=17)
3. **Introduced Version** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/Bill_Status/bills_text.cfm?billdoc=sb17%20intr.htm&yr=2024&sesstype=RS&i=17)
4. **Motion to postpone action one day adopted (Roll No. 172)** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/2024/RS/votes/house/00172.pdf)
5. **sb17 hfa fast 2-9 _1 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb17%20hfa%20fast%202-9%20_1%20adopted.htm)
6. **sb17 hfa summers 3-4 _2 adopted.htm** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.wvlegislature.gov/legisdocs/chamber/2024/RS/floor_amends/sb17%20hfa%20summers%203-4%20_2%20adopted.htm)

## Votes

- Passage — **32–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **90–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **33–0** (pass) · upper
- PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower
- POSTPONE ACTION 1 DAY — **80–11** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **94–1** (pass) · lower
- EFFECT FROM PASSAGE — **96–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Woodrum — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-01-10** Filed for introduction `filing`
- **2024-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-10** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-10** To Judiciary `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-17** Committee substitute reported
- **2024-01-18** On 1st reading
- **2024-01-18** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-01-19** On 2nd reading
- **2024-01-22** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-01-23** On 3rd reading
- **2024-01-23** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-01-23** Passed Senate (Roll No. 43) `passage`
- **2024-01-23** Effective from passage (Roll No. 43)
- **2024-01-23** Ordered to House
- **2024-01-24** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-24** To House Health and Human Resources `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-09** With amendment, do pass `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-12** On 1st reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-12** Read 1st time `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-13** Motion to postpone action one day adopted (Roll No. 172)
- **2024-02-13** Postponed on 2nd reading, Special Calendar, until 2/14/2024
- **2024-02-14** On 2nd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-02-14** Placed on House Calendar
- **2024-02-14** On 2nd reading, House Calendar
- **2024-03-04** From House Calendar, 2nd reading, placed on Special Calendar
- **2024-03-04** Read 2nd time `reading-2`
- **2024-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-04** Committee amendment withdrawn (Voice)
- **2024-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-04** Amendment reported by the Clerk
- **2024-03-04** Amendment adopted (Voice vote)
- **2024-03-05** On 3rd reading, Special Calendar
- **2024-03-05** Read 3rd time `reading-3`
- **2024-03-05** Passed House (Roll No. 462) `passage`
- **2024-03-05** Effective from passage (Roll No. 463)
- **2024-03-05** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-08** House Message received
- **2024-03-08** Senate concur in part; refuse concur in part; request House recede
- **2024-03-08** Passed Senate (Roll No. 458) `passage`
- **2024-03-08** Effective from passage (Roll No. 458)
- **2024-03-08** Senate requests House to concur
- **2024-03-09** House received Senate message
- **2024-03-09** House receded in part and passed (Roll No. 738)
- **2024-03-09** Effective from passage (Roll No. 739)
- **2024-03-09** Communicated to Senate
- **2024-03-09** Completed legislative action
- **2024-03-09** House Message received
- **2024-03-14** To Governor 3/14/2024 `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-09** To Governor 3/14/2024 - House Journal `executive-receipt`
- **2024-03-26** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/2024 - Senate Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-03-09** Approved by Governor 3/26/24 - House Journal `executive-signature`
- **2024-04-23** Chapter 173, Acts, Regular Session, 2024 `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b618ad5a-33f7-49ef-861f-52609f46d690`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official West Virginia legislature records).